Like any journey, achieving professional success can take a round-about route. In my mentoring work, it is not uncommon to hear of frustration when dealing with this reality. We all tend to imagine (especially when we are young), that the point from which we start out, to the point of reaching our professional goal(s), is a straight line, upward, trajectory. For some people, this can be the case, but this is rare. In most cases, circumstances occur which have the potential to